* In Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn":---> How I adore you,Dory Previn/I'll turn you up to eleven/for the band's ears to bleed* Music/MichaelJackson's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2AitTPI5U0 Black Or White]]'' music video features this in the first two minutes, when the [[LoudOfWar son retaliates against his dad.]]---> ''LOUD / LOUDER / ARE YOU NUTS!?!''* Buckcherry's cocaine anthem ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpiF4QGJNY Lit Up]]'' alludes to this when making a comparison between the norm and the coked-up person.---> "Well you're on ten, but honey, I'm on eleven!"* Peter Tagtgren from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hMPcHZJ0M PAIN/HYPOCRISY]].* Citizen King's song "Better Days" features the line "Crank it to eleven/blow another speaker".* Daniel Ekeroth [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1vcuKcXeI demonstrates]] Swedish Death Metal guitar sound.* In the documentary film ''Moog'', Music/{{Yes}} keyboardist Rick Wakeman remarked that when the Moog synthesizer allowed keyboardists for the first time to fill a role equal to that of guitarists in bands, all the guitarists started looking for the knob that goes to eleven.* Murdoc of Music/{{Gorillaz}} mentioned taking the bass up to thirteen in [[AllThereInTheManual Rise of the Ogre]].* The German band "Die Ärzte" demonstrate this in their animated music video for the live-performed song "Elke". This sarcastic song about a fat {{fangirl}} called "Elke" starts out calm, but when the amplifier gets up to eleven, this song rocks hard and the animated over the top violence begins. The "11" even glows red ! ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdayFTI6eVo Here (with English subtitles)]]''* German Industrial Metal band Music/{{KMFDM}} recently released WTF?!, an album featuring the song "Krank" which features the lyrics "Krank! Krank it to 11/Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid 24/7"* Natasha Bedingfield's heart megaphone is set on eleven. ItMakesSenseInContext.* The song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrE5x9mOkQ Smack Down]]'' by Music/ThousandFootKrutch mentions turning it to eleven.-->Come on everybody-->Gonna start this party-->If we turn it to 11-->Then we can't go wrong* Punk band "Templeton Pek" (yup, an A-Team reference) turn up their speakers Up to Eleven...visually. ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSzHU9hazY Barriers]]'' (at the end)* {{Rush}} fell victim to this trope with their 2002 album ''Vapor Trails''. Coming out in the thick of the "loudness war" of the early 2000s, it was mastered so loud that most of the subtle details (including Alex Lifeson's acoustic guitar) were buried, distorted, or badly obscured. In February 2011, the band announced plans to remix the whole album.* Music/NinjaSexParty's "Unicorn Wizard"--->"Sometimes I wish I was even more awesome than I already am.--->What would my life be like if I turned this shit up to eleven (out of a possible five)?"* The Sacramento rock band Warp 11, whose songs are entirely about Star Trek, chose their name as a tribute both to Spinal Tap and to the Trek universe's ultimate speed limit of Warp 10.* Australian radio station 2JJJ once released a compilation album of great heavy metal tracks. It was titled "Twelve".* MotleyCrue has a song outright titled "Louder Than Hell".--->"Some like it loud"--->"We like it loud, we like it loud, we like it LOUDER!"--->"LOUDER THAN HELL!"* DeepPurple has been rated as the loudest Rock-band in the world, and that's not without a proper reason either. During all of their favorite songs, they tend to bring the volume up, just a bit... well, a lot, actually. "Average" songs, by their standards, are played loud. When they get to "Smoke On The Water", "Hell To Pay" or "Black Night" (or "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Black Knight]]". They're not sure themselves), or any of their AudienceParticipation songs, for that matter, the volume goes up. If you didn't already need earplugs, you'll need them when those songs come around, and you get ''no warning'' before the songs start!* The song "The Man Who Couldn't Cry," recorded by JohnnyCash in 1993, starts out as a typical song of despair about a man down on his luck. As the song progresses the litany of misfortune thrown at the protagonist continues to build and build (loses his dog, his wife, his arm, his Broadway show is a flop, a prostitute laughs at him, his ex-wife dies of stretch marks, the earth suffers perpetual drought, etc.) to the point where it reveals itself as a spoof of "doom and despair" ballads.